Chaucer’s satirization seemed to combat medieval antifeminism, as satires are used scorn and ridicule something, anyway. Anti Feminism was very big in the medieval era. Women were to submit to men and their every wish, taught to be “lady-like”. In the Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Chaucer describes her as “A good wif was ther of biside Bathe,But she was somdel deef, and that was scathe.Of clooth-makyng she hadde swich an haunt...Hir hosen weren of fyn scarlet reed,...Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of howe.She was a worthy womman al hir lyve:Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve,”. Basically, Chaucer was describing how open and unafraid she was about speaking her mind, completely abnormal for women of that time. He made the Wife of Bath
